The footprints of a wandering mind: Further examination of the time course of an attentional lapse

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 91-97

  Smallwood, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional lapses; Default mode network; Mindwandering; Stimulus independent thought; Task unrelated thought

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL TASK; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; WANDERING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79959549074     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2010.537746     Document Type: Article

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